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Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos

Architect · Austrian · 1870 – 1933

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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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